In its report on the trend and progress of banking in 2022-23, the RBI said banks wrote off bad loans worth Rs 2.17 lakh crore in 2022-23 compared with Rs 1.79 lakh crore in the previous fiscal
During a meeting with managing directors and CEOs of public sector banks (PSBs), financial services secretary Vivek Joshi asked them to review the top 20 cases monthly for their resolution
The burden fell on us to sort the Indian banks out with reforms. Prime Minister Narendra Modi sat with all of us, including my predecessor Arun Jaitley (former finance minister). We spent a lot of time understanding where the problem was and worked together with the RBI, says Sitharaman